"Ky. court trims rights of grandparents to visit grandchildren": The Louisville Courier-Journal has a news update that begins, "The Kentucky Supreme Court has made it harder for grandparents to win visitation with their grandchildren when the child's parents object. In a 6-1 ruling, the state's high court ruled Thursday that parents who oppose giving a grandparent visitation must be presumed to be acting in the child's best interests. The court did not strike down Kentucky's 1984 grandparent visitation law but said a grandparent must present 'clear and convincing' evidence to win the right to visit a grandchild over a parent's objection."

And The Associated Press has a report that begins, "Passing through Laramie after an unsuccessful antelope hunt, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stopped at the University of Wyoming on Thursday to make an impassioned and humorous case for sticking to the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution."Posted at 11:23 PM by Howard Bashman

"Supreme Court Weighing 'First Sale' Copyright Doctrine": David Kravets has this post at Wired.coms "Threat Level" blog.Posted at 11:05 PM by Howard Bashman"Retired Supreme Court Justice sits on NY court": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "The first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court has taken a chair for a day on a panel of the federal appeals court in New York."Posted at 11:03 PM by Howard Bashman"Suggested Mottos for Other Law Blogs": Kyle Graham has this post at his blog, "noncuratlex.com."Posted at 10:44 PM by Howard Bashman"Obama v. the Supreme Court: An interview with Jeffrey Toobin." June Thomas has this podcast online at Slate.Posted at 05:14 PM by Howard Bashman"Drug-sniffing cases send Supreme Court to the dogs": Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

"How do you feel about Justice Roberts' ruling on the Affordable Care Act? Were you surprised?" That's one of the questions from historian Douglas Brinkley that President Obama answers in an interview Rolling Stone magazine posted online today.Posted at 04:40 PM by Howard Bashman"Rajaratnam Appeal Judges Voice Concern Over U.S. Wiretaps": Bloomberg News has this report.

"Court upholds ban on handgun sales to people under 21": Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has a report that begins, "The United States may ban federally licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to people under age 21, an appeals court ruled on Thursday, in a defeat for the National Rifle Association."

"Court: A woman with no genetic connection to baby is not the mother unless she adopts." MaryAnn Spoto of The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger has an article that begins, "A woman who arranges for a surrogate to give birth by using someone else's eggs cannot be considered the mother unless she adopts the child, a sharply divided state Supreme Court ruled today."

"The Court Crasher: Tom Goldstein changed how lawyers get to the Supreme Court--and how news gets out of it." Stephanie Mencimer has this article in the November 2012 issue of The Atlantic magazine.Posted at 10:25 AM by Howard Bashman